Collective Perception Research Articles

Perceived technological threat and vote choice: evidence from 15 European democracies

The political consequences of workplace technological adoption have become a focus of recent party politics research. This article contributes to this literature by directly examining how the perceived threat of technological change relates to support for populist and non-populist left and right parties. It does so in two ways: first, by examining subjective rather than objective automation exposure, and second by distinguishing between personal and collective threat perceptions. Using vote choice data from 15 European countries, this article shows that subjective perception of personal automation exposure relates to increased support for left parties and decreased support for populist-right parties, while concern over collective risk relates to increased support for the populist right. These patterns suggest that fear of workplace technological change elicits both material and status concerns. The article concludes with counterfactual analyses demonstrating that both non-populist and populist left-wing parties could benefit by mobilizing voters who feel personally threatened by automation.

When boss puts off, the team worse off: The mitigating role of initiative-enhancing HRM systems

The negative role of workplace procrastination is widely recognized, while much less research focuses on leader procrastination. We bring our attention to this domain and investigate the implications of leader procrastination. By drawing insights from social information processing theory and identifying team procrastination climate as a new construct, which describes the collective perceptions team members hold regarding procrastination at work, we develop a moderated-mediation model to examine how leader procrastination and initiative-enhancing human resource management (HRM) systems foster conditions to inhibit or facilitate team procrastination climate and subsequent team effectiveness, operationalized as team performance and team organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We tested the theoretical model with two-source data collected from 550 members of 124 teams across three time periods. Results showed that leader procrastination facilitated the development of team procrastination climate that undermined team effectiveness. Further, the effects of leader procrastination were significant only under low levels of initiative-enhancing HRM systems. These results offer new insights into theoretical implications for research on procrastination at work and provide practical implications on how to counteract the development of team procrastination climate.

OLTENIA ȘI EVOLUȚIA „PROBLEMEI DOBROGENE” (1878-1940). ASPECTE GEOPOLITICE ȘI MILITARE

Towards 1900, due to its ethnic homogeneity, its geostrategic position and its role during some events from the previous decades, Oltenia had reached within the Romanian collective perception a specific position: the hardcore of the national identity and the hinterland of resistance. On the contrary, Dobruja, which, after more than four centuries of Ottoman domination, had become, since 1878, the object of a Romanian-Bulgarian dispute, had always been an invasion corridor and an area of extraordinary ethno-cultural mixing. This article briefly presents the link between these two Romanian provinces throughout the period 1878-1940, considering the role of Oltenia in the plans and actions of the Romanian state aimed at defending or consolidating its sovereignty in Dobruja. Thus, Oltenia was a key-area for Romanian military operations planned against Bulgaria, cause of the 'Dobrujan Issue', and the strategic interdependence between the two provinces was highlighted in both the 1913 and 1916 military campaigns. Also, many ethnic Romanians from Oltenia were granted land in Northern Dobruja (after 1878) and in Southern Dobruja (during the interwar period). Lastly, the final settlement of the Romanian-Bulgarian dispute over Dobruja, through the bilateral treaty from 7th of September 1940, is linked to Craiova, the metropolis of Oltenia.

Reescribiendo su esencia, recordando su historia El protagonismo narrativo de Dulce María Loynaz en su Fe de vida

The narrators' subjectivity can prevail over the collective perception of an event; their impartiality is questioned even before reading the text. The authors’ reality is that which is inscribed in their writing and determines what they call their truth; their history has emerged from memory and this new perception annuls previous affirmations. The autobiography of the Cuban poet, Dulce María Loynaz, that is, Fe de vida, would come close to these postulates. This “story of her life”, which aspires to talk about her second husband and not about herself, deserves a careful reading where clues could emerge that point towards other discursive purposes. When questioned about her definition of happiness, the poet assured that she had not considered herself happy and that, if she could, she would choose another life unlike the one she lived; one should meditate if that other desired life is the one that emerges in her memories. This work explores approaches to concepts pointed out as autobiographical without ruling out the possibility that Loynaz pursues other purposes in her Fe de vida.

How do organizational culture and leadership style affect nurse presenteeism and productivity?: A cross sectional study of Hong Kong acute public hospitals

BackgroundPresenteeism is defined as a type of work behavior in which employees are physically present at work when ill, often with reduced performance. While organizational culture and leadership style are known to impact the organizational behavior of hospital staff, as indicated by increased burnout and decreased work engagement, their impact on nurse presenteeism and productivity has not been explored. Moreover, nursing studies often neglect the importance of using multi-level analysis, adopting aggregated unit-level scores to account for collective perceptions to evaluate culture and leadership. ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate the impact of unit-level organizational culture and leadership style on individual-level nurse presenteeism and productivity in acute care hospitals using multilevel analysis. DesignCross-sectional study. Setting(s)Three major acute care public hospitals in Hong Kong, where public hospitals provide over 90 % of inpatient services. ParticipantsAll full-time nurses (N = 4657) in the three study hospitals were invited to participate in this study. A total of 2339 nurses responded to the survey for a 65 % response rate. MethodsOrganizational culture and leadership style are characterized using the competing values framework and a two-factor leadership style typology, respectively. Multilevel hierarchical linear modeling was applied with unit-level clustering in each hospital. ResultsHierarchical culture was the dominant culture (M = 3.64, SD = 0.74) in our nurse sample. None of the unit-level organizational culture and leadership styles were associated with nurse presenteeism, however, rational organizational culture at the unit-level was significantly associated with increased productivity (regression coefficient: 0.17, 95 % CI: 0.04–0.31). ConclusionsThis study provides hospital managers with improved understanding of the differential impact of unit-level organizational culture and leadership style on nurse presenteeism and productivity. Unit-level leadership style did not have a direct impact on nurse presenteeism and productivity in this study, while the externally focused rational organizational culture increased nurse productivity. Further research is needed to understand the impacts of modifiable work factors and nurse psychosocial emotions on presenteeism and productivity.

The Social Accomplishment of Seeing Together in Networked Team Play

Background This article focuses on communication in team-based esports, particularly in the ways that callouts enable players in team-based First-Person Shooters (FPS) to collaboratively link their own perception and awareness of in-game actions to that of their teammates. Callouts are short, community-based utterances that players use to communicate vital details of fast-paced action in competitive games. Aim We provide an empirically-based theorization of why callouts appear to be especially important in team-based FPS games, which, because of the limited fields of vision and split-second decision-making, require players to communicate what is happening to the others in the team as they navigate the game environment. Methods To describe this distributed perception, we borrow from studies on active military settings that term this seeing together as interperceptivity and employ ethnomethodology in our analysis of the minute details of players’ actions in the screen recordings as they extended their team’s collective perception and awareness of in-game activities and events. Results Through this paper, we contribute to the ongoing research on understanding communication and collaboration in team-based games. The callout sequences (and aligning actions) are orienting towards sharing individual perceptions for the (co)construction of an interperceptivity of in-game activities. Hence, callouts form a precondition for coordinated play. Conclusion The introduction of this concept to game studies can help in making sense of a key capability in networked team-based games; that is, how players collectively construct a situational awareness that encompasses teammates’ perception. Also, because of the essential role of callouts and interperceptivity in highly-skilled networked play, we point to some of the cultural contexts in which this practice is accomplished.

Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval?

Abstract Problematic content on social media can be countered through objections raised by other community members. While intended to deter offenses, objections can influence the surrounding audience observing the interaction, leading to their collective approval or disapproval. The results of an experiment manipulating seven types of objections against common types of offenses indicate audiences’ support for objections that implore via appeals and disapproval of objections that threaten the offender, as they view the former as more moral, appropriate, and effective compared to the latter. Furthermore, audiences tend to prefer more benign and less threatening objections regardless of the offense severity (following the principle of “taking the high road”) instead of objections proportionate to the offense (“an eye for an eye”). Taken together, these results show how objections to offensive behaviors may impact collective perceptions on social media, paving the way for interventions to foster effective objection strategies in social media discussions.

Discourse Analysis of the 2022 Australian Tennis Open: A Multimodal Appraisal Perspective

This article presents a preliminary analysis of a corpus of texts relating to the 2022 Australian Tennis Open using a multimodal appraisal framework. The study utilises quantitative and qualitative content analysis to examine media reports, official statements, and public reactions to the incident, which centred around Novak Djokovic's vaccination status. The analysis focusses on assessing how evaluative language contributes to community-building and identifies the underlying values, beliefs, and evaluations that shape stakeholders' emotional, cognitive, and behavioural responses.The appraisal framework, encompassing attitude, engagement, and graduation, serves as a comprehensive tool for categorising resources that express evaluation. Furthermore, the article delves into the application of appraisal analysis within the context of multimodal and online discourse, encompassing various platforms such as newspapers, television, radio, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, official political statements, and court rulings. By examining these diverse media, the study seeks to investigate the dynamic discourse interplay surrounding the 2022 Australian Open, highlighting the pivotal role of evaluative communication in fostering alignment among readers through shared values and attitudes.The preliminary findings suggest that access to greater semiotic recourses increases consensus. The gains from using this interpretative framework are an asset, facilitating the coding of a large data set and attending the different manifestations of discourses around the player’s participation. As discourse continues to shape societal narratives, this multimodal appraisal investigation contributes to our understanding of the complex dynamics inherent in discourse construction and the influence of evaluative language in shaping collective perception.

Music performance anxiety in Portuguese higher education: Contextual factors, perceptions, and strategies

Music performance anxiety (MPA) affects health, wellbeing, and performance quality. The characteristics of MPA are multifaceted and mainly caused by psychophysiological factors that generate a sense of loss of control. The aims of the present study were to understand MPA in the context of higher music education in Portugal through the individual and collective thoughts and perceptions reported by teachers and students; identify the strategies employed both by teachers during the teaching-learning process for students to cope with the effects of MPA and by the students themselves; and portray the extent of institutional support for students experiencing MPA. We carried out semistructured interviews with 24 students and 12 teachers from four higher education institutions in Portugal and analyzed the data thematically. We identified four overarching themes (perceptions of MPA, strategies, contextual factors, and institutional support) from which 10 subthemes emerged. In addition to confirming the presence of psychophysiological factors experienced before, during, and after performances, the findings suggest that MPA may decrease with years of experience and that teachers’ strategies to counter MPA are limited. Contextual factors, institutional culture, teaching methodology, and lack of institutional support all contribute to the high levels of MPA that continue to be found in higher education institutions. One implication of the study is that there is a clear need for MPA to be discussed in educational institutions with teachers, students, and psychologists.

Roadside Infrastructure Support for Urban Automated Driving

Automated driving offers excellent opportunities for ecology, economy as well as society. Especially in urban intersections, there is a considerable margin for benefits in these sectors. This work takes a structured simulation approach to find answers on the benefit of additional information about surrounding objects of automated vehicles provided by roadside ITS stations to utilize collective perception. We are using advanced sub-microscopic 3D hardware in the loop simulation framework to generate data based on which we can achieve reliable conclusions. Our simulation data set, consisting of 400 simulation iterations, suggests that automated vehicles greatly benefit from collective perception. A lack of roadside ITS station support might lead to a disruptive impact of automated vehicles on the macroscopic traffic flow of urban road networks. If roadside collective perception is introduced to the problem, maneuver time is reduced, and traffic efficiency is increased by 19.8% on average.

The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change

This study investigates how episodic and thematic flooding imagery and political party cues in climate change news stories influence risk perceptions, collective efficacy perceptions, and intended political action. We found that imagery and party cues had significant total effects on perceived flooding threat but not on perceived climate change threat. Specifically, episodic imagery (but not thematic imagery) increased perceived flooding threat, and party cues lowered perceived threat. Perceived threat was positively associated with collective efficacy, which, in turn, was positively associated with intended political action. Both imagery and party cues had significant indirect effects on perceived efficacy and intended action.

Implementation of MEC-Assisted Collective Perception in an Integrated Artery/Simu5G Simulation Framework.

Advanced vehicle-to-everything (V2X) safety applications must operate with ultra-low latency and be highly reliable. Therefore, they require sophisticated supporting technologies. This is especially true for cooperative applications, such as Collective Perception (CP), where a large amount of data constantly flows among vehicles and between vehicles and a network intelligence server. Both low and high-level support is needed for such an operation, meaning that various access technologies and other architectural elements also need to incorporate features enabling the effective use of V2X applications with strict requirements. The new 5G core architecture promises even more supporting technologies, like Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). To test the performance of these technologies, an integrated framework for V2X simulations with 5G network elements is proposed in the form of combining Simu5G, a standalone 5G implementation, with the go-to V2X-simulator, Artery. As a first step toward a fully functional MEC-assisted CP Service, an extension to Simu5G's edge implementation is introduced. The edge application is responsible for dispatching the Collective Perception Messages generated by the vehicles via the 5G connectivity so that a MEC server provided by the network can process incoming data. Simulation results prove the operability of the proposed integrated system and edge computing's potential in assisting V2X scenarios.

The relationship of mushroom management and collective justice in health institutions

ABSTRACT As in every sector, organizational management in the health sector plays an important role in the institution being successful and achieving its goals. Health care is a phenomenon that reminds individuals of the need for collective work. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the perceptions of mushroom management and collective justice in healthcare organizations. The sample for the study, using the relational survey model, consisted of 410 healthcare professionals. The “Mushroom Management Scale” and “Collective Justice Scale” were used to collect data. SEM path analysis revealed that there was a significant negative relationship between the mushroom management scale sub-dimensions and collective justice variable. In addition, a significant effect was found between these variables. Based on the demographic data of the participants, mushroom management sub-dimensions and collective justice perceptions of participants differed significantly according to the institution they worked in. It is thought that health institution managers who are transparent, honest and open, especially in information sharing, instead of using mushroom management style, who include employees in decision-making processes, and who adopt a more sharing management style will increase employees' trust in the organization and management as well as their perceptions of collective justice.

Fair Trial for Transitional Justice: The Case of Belene Trial

Inspired by the 32-years long Belene trial, the article investigates the impact of deprivation from the right to justice on reaching transitional justice in aftermaths of crimes against humanity. Through bottom-up victims-centered perspective the article digs into the Belene victims’ oral history narratives to find out the impact of this deprivation on the societal contract, victims’ trauma, justice perception of the society and the rule of law. Based on textual analysis of open-ended interviews and narratives of the Belene victims, the article highlights the adverse consequences of neglecting the victims’ right to fair trial and transitional justice and perpetuating impunity, not only impeding justice and healing but perpetuating victimization and corroding societal trust. The sustained denial of victims' rights to a fair trial and access to justice exacerbates historical wounds, erodes the foundations of the justice and collective perception of fairness in the whole society. Beyond legal implications, the deprivation from right to justice affects individuals' psychological and social well-being and overall societal peace. The article emphasizes that transitional justice is a moral imperative, enabling the rebuilding of a peaceful and democratic society on principles of accountability and empathy, especially in the complex and sensitive aftermath of ethnic-based crimes against humanity.

Exploring the relevance and relative importance of interpreting aptitude constructs and their underlying factors: A data-driven tripartite investigation

AbstractThis study aims to explore the relevance and underlying factors of an array of interpreting aptitude constructs, and, on that basis, the collective and group-specific perception of their relative importance. To meet the research purposes, a questionnaire survey was designed and distributed to interpreting trainers, trainees and professional interpreters, asking respondents to evaluate the relative importance of 40 aptitude constructs drawn from an extensive literature review. A total of 769 valid responses were collected. An explorative factor analysis retained 23 constructs divided into three factors focusing on cognitive skills for online information processing, personality traits and temperaments, and foundational linguistic skills respectively. While personality traits and temperaments were regarded as a stable and distinctive dimension of interpreting aptitude, cognitive skills for information processing were viewed as the most important factor. Particularly, listening and speaking in B enjoyed the highest rating. Although statistically significant differences existed in the relative importance of certain constructs, the substantive differences indicated by the effect sizes were small. Compared with trainees, trainers and professional interpreters demonstrated a more sharpened awareness of market demands and industrial priorities, but otherwise the three groups converged more than they diverged in the evaluation of aptitude constructs and factors.

How Human Drivers Can Benefit From Collective Perception: A User Study

Collective perception is one of the key ideas of vehicular networking and allows the exchange of data about perceived objects. However, unlike autonomous driving systems, human drivers cannot screen large numbers of objects to judge their dangerousness. An assistance system in the vehicle, therefore, must do this job. This article shows a concept for a human–machine interface that could be used to warn the driver in case such a system detects an actually dangerous object. A user study in a driving simulator was performed to evaluate its potential to prevent accidents. Eye-tracking glasses were used to analyze the driver’s gaze during different types of situations. Furthermore, the participants’ subjective experience was evaluated with a questionnaire. Results show that drivers trust the system and brake earlier and with more control due to the warnings, and ultimately, the majority of accidents could be avoided thanks to the warnings.

‘Angry accountants’: Making sense of professional identity crisis on online communities

This study used netnography to explore accountants’ individual and collective conceptualization and perception of their identity in a context of de-professionalization. Drawing from Guo’s identity sense-making framework, the paper focuses on how Italian accountants within a so-called “community online” have tried to make sense of their professional identity crisis by sharing feelings and emotions about the unstable context surrounding their profession. The Italian context provides an interesting case of “institutionalized de-professionalization” affecting accountants’ identity, prestige and image. It is affected by the ongoing expansion of regulatory intervention, which is transforming the profession, and a “non-interventionist” professional body that does not protect its members. The paper contributes to the literature on accounting professionals experiencing identity crises and provides theoretical and practical implications, discussing the figure of the “bureaucrat accountant”, and also contributes to the growing use of netnography as a useful qualitative method to study identity.

Literary View towards Unresolved Territorial Conflicts in Northeast Asia: Focusing on Inherent Community Memory between South Korea and Japan and Collective Perception of South Korean

Purpose: This article is to explore to understand the realistic background of the territorial conflicts, it has limitations in the understanding and resolution of the territorial conflicts at a more fundamental level regarding the humanities approach. In this respect, it is important to analyze the unresolved territorial conflicts based on the literary view from a humanistic approach based on a political and cultural perspective rather than a confrontation based on the logic of power.
 Method: The humanities approach is especially literature, contains the conflict generation and resolution process at the human level. The literary works representing each country, especially novels and tales, uniquely demonstrate the origin and development of the conflicts through their own plots. Based on which, it will be possible to understand how the territorial disputes will develop by country at the cultural level.
 Results: This article has not suggested a fundamental resolution for the territorial conflicts of Northeast Asia, and especially the historical issues of Dokdo between South Korea and Japan. However, it is important to take a humanistic approach focusing on the literary works as ideological, economic, cultural, and nationalist conflicts. This is because the memory of intersecting harms and damages as ideological, economic, cultural, and nationalistic confrontations are repeated with a focus on the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria are the factors that continue the conflict.
 Conclusion: As the historical contexts are different, the cultural and psychological tendencies are also unique, and the territorial disputes develop through the combination of such factors. In order to analyze the collective psychology and conflict of the South Koreans who experienced the loss of sovereignty and division due to Japan’s forced annexation, and the territorial and historical issues surrounding the Island of Dokdo, which has been an obstacle to the normalization of the South Korea-Japan relations to this day, the culture of the time literature works dealing with modern and contemporary history that reflect the culture and language have been considered.

Interpersonal emotions in team sports

This research explores how emotional contagion within a team impacts emotions, team cohesion, collective efficacy perception, effort perception, perceived performance, and actual performance outcomes. Forty-seven non-competitive amateur cross-fit participants were split into two experimental groups: high pleasantness-high arousal (HH) and low pleasantness-low arousal (LL). To stimulate these mood states, two trained associates were engaged, which served as catalysts for the teams' "emotional contagion". Participants from the HH group outperformed and exerted more effort than those from the LL group, though they perceived their effort levels to be similar. They demonstrated greater collective efficacy and team cohesion, had a more positive emotional state, and perceived their team's performance as superior. Emotional contagion plays a significant role in team dynamics and physical outcomes. The practical implications of emotional contagion are discussed.

MODA E SUTENTABILIDADE: UMA CRÍTICA AO CONSUMO

The present article aims to trace theoretical considerations about the articulation between Fashion and consumption from an essay critique with emphasis on sustainability and consumer perception in the act of buying. To this end, a basic, qualitative and descriptive research was carried out to discuss consumer behavior. From the literature investigated and the critique outlined by the authors, it was possible to understand that: (I) the oversupply of Fashion products accelerates the operations of consumerism and disorients consumer behavior; (II) emotional gratification in the act of purchase is emptied and at the mercy of the influence of consumer agents; and (III) as they seek to convert audiences into impulsive buyers, these agents manipulate the collective perception and may be able to interfere with personal motivation during the buying act.